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ID:     4771
Type:     Byzantine
Region:     BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Issuer:     John I Tzimisces
Date Ruled:     AD 969-976
Metal:     Gold
Denomination:     Histamenon nomisma
Struck / Cast:     struck
Date Struck:     AD 969-976
Diameter:     22.3 mm
Weight:     4.38 g
Die Axis:     6 h
Obverse Legend:     #NAME?
Obverse Description:     Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus cruciger with two pellets in the limb of each cross, pallium and colobium, , raising right in benediction, gospels in left
Reverse Legend:     +ΘEOTOC BOHΘΙΩ δESP
Reverse Description:     The Virgin, nimbate, on right crowns John on left, John has short beard, wears loros and holds a long cross, above his head is the manus Dei (hand of God), the Virgin wears a stola and maphorium, MΘ above her head
Mint:     Constantinople
Primary Reference:     SBCV 1786
Reference2:     DOC III, part 2, 2
Reference3:     HB 282
Photograph Credit:     FORUM ANCIENT COINS
Source:     http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?zpg=2922